IAG 2014

Using Technology Tools to Meet the Needs of Gifted Students

• Student Login

• SAMR Model by Ruben Puentedura, Ph.D.
• Apps in Education by SAMR Level
• Bloomin’ Apps by Kathy Schrock
• Padagogy Wheel by Allan Carrington

• Web
  • Poll Everywhere
  • Today’s Meet (the room for the December 16 training)
  • Infuse Learning
• Web & App
  • Socrative

• Web
  • Google Docs
  • Primary Pad
  • Wikispaces
    • The Students' History
      • November Learning podcast: Building Legacay Within a Textbook (Garth Holman & Michael Pennington)
      • IdeaJam: Education Live Stream (students are featured from 16:50 to 38:20)
      • Link to the teachers' blog
    • Great Books for Gifted Kids Wiki
    • The Caves of Mull - choose your own adventure story written by students (not for young children)

• PC & App
  • Lino (App)
  • Mindmeister (iPad users - Mindmeister App)
• App
  • Grafio Lite
  • Skitch (Syncs with Evernote)
  • Popplet Lite (read this blog post for examples)
  • Inspiration Maps Lite
  • SimpleMind+
  • Idea Sketch
• PC
  • Bubbl.us
  • SpicyNodes
  • Mind42 (requires activation email)
  • Mindomo (requires activation email)
  • Exploratree (for designing then printing graphic organizers)
  • Creately
  • Cacoo.com

• Word Clouds
  • Web
    • Wordsift
    • Word It Out
  • PC
    • Tagxedo (requires Microsoft Silverlight)
• Web & App
  • Thinglink (App) - Make your images interactive
• PC
  • Infogram - Make infographics
  • The Noun Project (http://thenounproject.com/) – Free icons for inforgraphics

• App
  • Toontastic
  • Sock Puppets
  • Puppet Pals
  • Tellegami
  • Animation Desk Lite
  • Haiku Deck
• PC
  • Storybird
  • Little Bird Tales

• Web & App
  • Animoto (App)
• App
  • Pixntell (Edu version is $1.99)
  • Videolicious
• PC
  • Wevideo
• Screencasting
  • App
    • Educreations
    • ScreenChomp
    • ShowMe
  • PC
    • Jing
    • Screencast-O-Matic($15/year for editing capabilities)

• Fastest Tube - Download YouTube videos by adding a plug-in
• Tube Chop - Allows you to clip a section of a YouTube video & provide link to the clip
• Print What You Like - Allow you/student to choose exactly what you want to print from a web page
• Productivity Tools
  • Dropbox (http://db.tt/N4Wssa8Y) - web and app
    • [Disclosure - if you use the link above to signup for your own free account, we both get 500MB additional space free]
  • Evernote (http://evernote.com/) – web and app
• EduClipper - Pinterest for education
• What's Today - App for young children to learn calendar concepts (this is my app - $1.99)

• TED - videos of inspiring "talks" made by visionary leaders in numerous fields
• TED-Ed- model lessons that feature animated video, customizable
• Khan Academy- most notable for math, but other topics included
• Mathtrain.tv - middle school math (learn more about how Mathtrain started in a podcast)
• Wolfram Alpha- math and comparative information (search engine)
• Flipped Learning- secondary science
• Great Books for Gifted Kids Wiki - Educator created wiki to collaborate on great books for gifted kids

• Byrdseed Gifted (http://www.byrdseed.com/) by Ian Byrd
• Unwrapping the Gifted (http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/) by Tamara Fisher
• Gifted Exchange (http://giftedexchange.blogspot.com/) by Laura Vanderkam

• #gtchat- global conversation about gifted education, 6 pm CST (US) Fridays
• Check out the handout for suggested folks to follow and articles on Twitter.